House-moving truck.



No. 639,46l. Patented Dec. 19 I899. .1. E. TANDY.

HOUSE MOVING TR (Application filed Oct. 24,

(No Model.)

' llniiTno STATns PATENT Trice.

JAMES E. TANDY, OF YVIOI-IITA, KANSAS.

HOUSE-=IVIOVING TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,461, dated December 19, 1899. Application filed October 24, 1898. Serial No. 694,423. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. TANDY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in House-Moving Trucks, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, and the figures of reference thereon, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of my improved house-moving truck. Fig. 2 is a rear end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of said truck; and Fig. 4 is a top plan of the truck, showing how the front rollers will turn under the bolster.

This invention relates to certain improvements in house-moving trucks; and it consists of the construction and arrangement of parts; and the object of my invention is to produce a truck adapted to move large heavy houses with the least possible jar to the house and to attain the greatest speed and ease in moving the same.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the house-moving truck.

2 represents the frame of the rear truck.

2 represents the frame of the front truck.

3 represents the truck-rollers. 4 represents the shaft or axle on which said rollers 3 are sleeved. 5 represents a metallic bearing in each end of each of said rollers. 6 represents washers or collars on said axle between the rollers and frame. 7 represents clips for permanently securing said axles 4 to the frames 2 and 2. 8 represents bolts for securing said clips to said frame.

9 represents a bolster permanently secured at 10 to the rear frame 2 and pivotally connected to the frame 2 at 16. 11 represents a metallic plate along the entire width of the rear end of the frame 2, on which said bolster 9 slides when said truck 2 is swinging around either way, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 4. 12 represents a central partition in the frames 2 and 2 between the rollers 3. 13 represents a central bolster-plate on which the house rests. 14 represents a central pivotal point. 15 represents strength ening metallic plates secured to each side of said bolster 9. 1'7 represents brace-rods at the front and rear sides of said frames 2 and 2, which run from end to end and under the central partition 12, asshown by the dotted lines in Fig. 2.

18 represents a tongue which is secured to the front of frame 2 at 19.

20 represents a brace-plate which is swung around at one side, as shown in Figs, 1 and 4, when the frames 2 and 2 are used together and swung around in line with the tongue, engaging the frame 2 to prevent it from dropping down at the forward end when said frames 2 and 2 are separated at the pivotal point 16. 21 represents the bolt for securing said plate 20 to the tongue 18.

22 represents a chain (shown as broken in two in Fig. 4) secured at one end to the tongue 18 at 23 and the other end to the forward end of the bolster 9 at 24, and is for the purpose of holding the tongue 18 up when in use.

The rollers are sleeved on the axle, which is secured to the frame, and as there are two rollers to each axle they are much more easily turned than the single roller.

By having the double frames under the bolster 9 with the central pivotal bearing 14 the front frame 2 is very easily turned and can be turned to a right angle to the frame 2, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 4.

In moving a house if the truck 2 should run over an obstacle, say, two inches high, it would only raise the house or point 14 one inch, or if a single roller of truck 2" should run over the two-inch obstacle it would only raise the point 14 one-half inch.

There are usually three sets of trucks put under a house-one at each of the rear oorners and one in the center at the front of the house.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to se cure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. A house-moving truck consisting of the combination of two independent frames, one in advance of the other, said frames consisting of oblong boxes open at top and bottom with a central partition running from front to rear, a sl1aft keyed to each end of said frames, two wheels journaled on each of said shafts or axles one on each side of said central partition, a bolster secured to the center of the upper edge of said rear frame, extending for center partition, a bolster permanently secured to said rear frame, extending over said forward frame, and pivotally connected thereto, a central pivotal bearing on the upper side of said bolster midway between said forward and rear frames, and a tongue secured to said front frame, substantially as shown and described.

JAMES E. TANDY.

VVi-tnesses:

THOMAS O. Hoss, O. W. McOoY. 

